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Apple TV+ Joins 'Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment' Anti-Piracy Coalition
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... or pirate. That way, you get the digital product you want while paying $0.00. It’s a win-win. The beauty of the free market.
Step foot outside of the USA /UK - It can be hard or impossible to get hold of content legally.
"This title is not available in your region"
, And then check out which of those are available in the country you live in, and then find out that they don't have that title in their distribution in your country - And of course there is no easy way to figure out what they have until you sign up...
How much of the piracy is a lost sale?
A "lost sale means that the person would have paid but then found a way to watch for free. But I bet most people what watch ONLY if it were free and would not watch if they had to pay. The person who would never pay to watch a film is not a lost sale.
My guess is that 90% of piracy costs Apple and others nothing as those people are not lost sales.
A "lost sale means that the person would have paid but then found a way to watch for free. But I bet most people what watch ONLY if it were free and would not watch if they had to pay. The person who would never pay to watch a film is not a lost sale.
My guess is that 90% of piracy costs Apple and others nothing as those people are not lost sales.
Piracy will never go away until they provide the contents regardless of region. I understand that it depends on approval, but people have no option other than piracy.
yup....now the T2 requirement for netflix makes alot more sense.
all of a sudden piracy is a big deal to them....since their selling content now....
In their first year in the game.
How many Emmys did HBO win their first year? Showtime? AMC, A&E, FX? Any other cable network?
Spoiler: ZERO.
In fact, it took some of those over a decade of producing original content before getting their first Emmy win.
Netflix won an Emmy during their first year of original content production, in 2013. Did you consider them a leader in the field at the time? I'd be willing to wager a lot that you did.
My first thought with this article was simply that the corporations have obviously decided they need a new anti-piracy brand because their old ones are so tarnished and abused that no-one takes them seriously any more.
To a lesser extent; there were/are people annoyed with the warnings/trailers/ads/settings on video media, which is solved by simply ripping the content itself.
It‘s painfully obvious that most modern media production incorporates scams and inflated costs; I’ve watched 90 minute movies where the last 9-10 minutes (1/10th!) is continuous credits, and supposedly supported several hundred thousand jobs...
Compare this to better epics from just a couple of decades ago with more actual cast, sets, costumes. Or from back in some ‘golden age‘ of 90s/80s/60s where the crawls would be respectively around 100lines / cast and creatives and directors / ‘the players’ credited over a handful of seconds...
I do remember how there used to be CDs that wouldn’t play in some players because of anti-copy tracks, and it ended up being that buyers actually ended up ripping them to a cd-r in order to be played.
To a lesser extent; there were/are people annoyed with the warnings/trailers/ads/settings on video media, which is solved by simply ripping the content itself.
It‘s painfully obvious that most modern media production incorporates scams and inflated costs; I’ve watched 90 minute movies where the last 9-10 minutes (1/10th!) is continuous credits, and supposedly supported several hundred thousand jobs...
Compare this to better epics from just a couple of decades ago with more actual cast, sets, costumes. Or from back in some ‘golden age‘ of 90s/80s/60s where the crawls would be respectively around 100lines / cast and creatives and directors / ‘the players’ credited over a handful of seconds...
Well I am not sure that is the point. Lets look at one example I have. I like Star Trek, I want to watch the new shows. Here in the US I have to subscribe to CBS. Ok, all well in good. In the rest of the world, you can watch it on Netflix. The same show, no extra subscription service, just Netflix. It is that kinda crap that makes me angry as a consumer and it is, to me, bad faith by content owners.
I am willing to pay to get the shows I like and want to watch, I am not willing to get shafted because CBS wants yet another streaming service.
stealing is not free market. its just stealing because you think you are entitled to someone else's property.
This is dumb. You complain that apple charges an arm and a leg, and when called on it your answer is that multiple services and sports cost a lot. Apple isn’t responsible for what non-apple services cost. Apple doesn’t offer sports, and apple can’t control what other services charge for sports.
30 dollars for a crappy, badly acted, badly edited propaganda movie which was shot near modern day concentration camps.... (not to get too political but these are facts, the movie is plagued by that pride and hate) in a subscription service (so you only get to see it if you subscribe) ... or $30 a few weeks further in iTunes...
Disney and Apple need a good push in the back of the knee, a good humbling. (Apple for other reasons...)
Oh also add $20 to rent new releases... You should be able to just purchase them at that price and studios and Apple should be happy. Hell, in a perfect world they would give a percentage of that profit to struggling theaters, to keep them afloat...
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What? Did you pirate before you had a real job? Did you pirate as a poor student? As a kid? Want to watch something but parents won’t buy it for you?
We as users, don’t care who made the content. Just like we don’t care who made the cardboard box 📦 for your Amazon delivery. It’s what’s inside that matters. If all the shipping fees are turning out to be too expensive. You look at the orders, not who made the card box
Perhaps. Depends on who “they” is. But it is still dumb. Disney can’t control what Warner charges. Apple can’t control what Comcast charges. And, for that matter, things like Disney+ are universally considered cheap, not expensive.
And, if you compare to what we were paying a few years ago, even subscribing to many services is WAY cheaper than cable, for what you get.
1) you can stream pretty much anything you can think of, any time you want (not a limited selection, only when the network decides to air it). You don’t have to rent or buy dvds to accomplish that. Unlike pay-per-view, you can watch as many times as you want, on any device you want.
2) you can subscribe to things one month at a time, watch whatever you want, then cancel the subscription. No 1 year or 2 year commitments.
People just like to come up with rationales to justify piracy.
And this is a non sequitur. You as consumers don’t care? So go to mcdonalds and demand a whopper and see how far it gets you. You can complain all you want but their is no regime that will ever happen, or that will ever make any sense, where content creators will be forced to share their content with whoever wants to aggregate it, at whatever rate that aggregator wants to pay for it, just so you, the consumer, don’t have to be bothered with subscribing to more than one service.
If you’ve been around for 40-50 years home video is massively cheaper than it used to be. Not only because of unlimited streaming of titles but also cost per title.
Inflation adjusted a VHS movie bought in the 80s is almost $200 in today’s money.
The big difference in piracy today compared to back then is that torrent sites are generally in the hands of anarchist cartels and organized crime who make money from the ad revenue. They make more money than many movie studios and production companies do and the money they earn sometimes goes into extreme movements and corrupting politics.
I would forget about lawyers and just send John Wick to deal with it.